MULTBLAST: A web application for multiple BLAST searches.

Unlabelled: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, (BLAST) allows the comparison of a query sequence/s to a database of sequences and identifies those sequences that are similar to the query above a user-defined threshold. We have developed a user friendly web application, MULTBLAST that runs a series of BLAST searches on a user-supplied list of proteins against one or more target protein or nucleotide databases. The application pre-processes the data, launches each individual BLAST search on the University of Nevada, Reno's-TimeLogic DeCypher® system (available from Active Motif, Inc.